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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.3b.1
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p. 138Περὶ τέλους · ὅροι
Λέγεται δ’ ὑπὸ μὲν τῶν Στωϊκῶν ὁρικῶς “τέλος ἐστὶν οὗ ἕνεκα πάντα πράττεται καθηκόντως, αὐτὸ δὲ πράττεται οὐδενὸς ἕνεκα”· κἀκείνως “οὗ χάριν τἆλλα, αὐτὸ δ’ οὐδενὸς ἕνεκα” καὶ πάλιν “ἐφ’ ὃ πάντα τὰ ἐν τῷ βίῳ πραττόμενα καθηκόντως τὴν ἀναφορὰν λαμβάνει, αὐτὸ δ’ ἐπ’ οὐδέν”. Ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν νεωτέρων Περιπατητικῶν τῶν ἀπὸ Κριτολάου “τὸ ἐκ πάντων τῶν ἀγαθῶν συμπεπληρωμένον” (τοῦτο δὲ ἦν “τὸ ἐκ τῶν τριῶν γενῶν”), οὐκ ὀρθῶς. Οὐ γὰρ πάντα τἀγαθὰ μέρη γίνεται τοῦ τέλους· οὔτε γὰρ τὰ σωματικὰ, οὔτε τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκτός, τὰ δὲ τῆς ψυχικῆς ἀρετῆς ἐνεργήματα μόνης.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 139On the End · Definitions 1
The Stoics give this definition: “The end is that for the sake of which everything is appropriately done, while it itself is done for the sake of nothing else.” Also: “That for whose sake the other things are, while it itself is for the sake of nothing else.” And again: “That to which everything appropriately done in life is referred, while it itself is referred to nothing else.”
The later Peripatetics, those following Critolaus, define it as “that which is made complete out of all goods” (that is, “out of the three kinds”), incorrectly. For not all goods become parts of the end: neither bodily goods nor goods from external things do so, but only the activities of the soul’s virtue.159
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The complete surviving text of Stobaeus’s second book, through II.46.22, in Ancient Greek and English, with an introduction and 1,541 explanatory notes. All forty-six chapter headings remain, including the notices for chapters whose texts are missing.
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Greek: Curt Wachsmuth, Ioannis Stobaei Anthologii libri duo priores, volumen II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), printed p. 1 and pp. 3–264. The supplied edition preserves consequential editorial signs, reconstructed joins, qualified attributions, and missing-text notices. English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes: Diotimos Editions, 2026.
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